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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.060515.6692@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <ajross.714890195@husc10>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 06:05:15 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- Andrew Ross writes
- > Obviously. But (and oooh, am I gonna catch flames for this
- > one) unless your needs include NEEDING more than one screen
- > and/or having a requirement for nifty movies in the OS, I'd
- > be willing to bet that a PC will fulfill them. Multiple
- > screen support and Quicktime are the only REAL advantages a
- > Mac has (I can feel the heat already). There are catch
- > phrases and buzzwords aplenty, (ease of use! Fast SCSI
- > drives! Consistant interface! Fully integrated hardware!) but
- > none of them boil down into a "You can do this on a mac but not
- > on a pc" sentence. Precious few of them even boil down to "You
- > can do this on a mac better than on a pc." This dumb PC jock
- > thinks that if any of you would actually sit down with a PC
- > and just USE it instead of stopping every few seconds to think
- > "Hey, my mac does that better (or even differently)" you would
- > find that, just like with the mac, there are very few things
- > you CAN'T do. Now consider that buying a PC to do that job
- > is considerable cheaper (PLEASE INSERT FLAME OF YOUR CHOICE
- > HERE) and you have the point most of us dumb PC jocks have
- > been trying to get across.
-
- Well, here's one ex-PC jock. I have USED PCs, as you requested. For
- years. Moreover, here's one ex-PV jock who felt very much the same
- way that you did. Why bother with pretty icons? I can _do_ anything
- they can.
- Then I got a NeXT. And I found out that yes, there is a payoff to
- ease of use, integration, and all those buzzwords. In time not
- wasted. In aggravation not felt.
- So when I had to get a notebook I was glad to shell out the extra
- bucks for a PowerBook rather than go for a cheaper DOS laptop -- even
- though I know DOS apps very well and knew mac apps not at all (of
- course, if NeXT made a laptop i'd be even happier).
- Can I do anything on my NeXT (which is an order of magnitude more
- powerful than most macs) that I couldn't do on a suitably boosted PC?
- Probably not. But i spend my time actually doing it rather than
- trying to make the computer do it.
- Bottom line: my time has value. my sanity has value. beware of
- false economies.
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-